Christian Education Quotes

• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him or her the framework for total truth, rooted in the Creator's existence and in the Bible's teaching, so that in each step of the formal learning process the student will understand what is true and what is false and why it is true or false.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Teaching, Giving

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• The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Education, Wall

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

  Peter Marshall

  Christian, Principles, Fool

  Dr. Peter Marshall (2016). “Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall”, p.224, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A Christian boy or girl can learn mathematics, for example, from a teacher who is not a Christian; and truth is truth however learned. But while truth is truth however learned, the bearing of truth, the meaning of truth, the purpose of truth, even in the sphere of mathematics, seem entirely different to the Christian from that which they seem to the non-Christian; and that is why a truly Christian education is possible only when Christian conviction underlies not a part but all, of the curriculum of the school.

  John Gresham Machen

  Girl, Christian, Teacher

  John Gresham Machen (1951). “What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses”

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• The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Inspire, Adults

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• It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.

  Charles Hodge

  God, Education, Religious

  Charles Hodge (1871). “Systematic Theology”, p.353

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• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Education, Reading, Teaching

  English Social History ch. 18 (1942)

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• The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.

  John Gresham Machen

  Family, Christian, School

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• The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

  T. S. Eliot

  Graduation, Christian, Men

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• It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.

  Henrietta Mears

  Motivational, Women, Moving

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• The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, Reading, School

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• Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Wisdom, Religious

  "Points of friction". Book by Agnes Repplier, "Consolations of the Conservative", 1920.

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• Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Christian, Epic, Long

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• Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Teaching, Giving

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.88, SPCK

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• Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

  Francis Crick

  Children, Religion, Adults

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• You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Sarcastic, Education, Religious

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• We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

  Douglas Wilson

  Christian, Kids, Intellectual

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• Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Education, Animal

  John Ruskin (19??). “Works: Deucalion. The king of the Golden River. The eagle's nest. Arrows of the chace”

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• The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Christian, Character, Years

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• I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Christian, Problem, Sometimes

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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